Bug #595

puppet choke on non english LANG settings

Added by Redmine Admin about 5 years ago. Updated about 5 years ago.

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Assignee:Matt Palmer % Done:

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Description

i got a little idea there,

should not puppet use environement LANG=C when managing facts or packages etc… ?

i have LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8

and puppet choke on quite a few facts (erors messages with uname for exemple: Pour en savoir davantage, faites: « uname —help ». ) and also with packages updates :

/usr/bin/apt-cache policy mysql-client-4.1 => err: Packagemysql-client-4.1: Could not find latest version err: Packagemysql-client-4.1: Could not find latest version err: Packagemysql-client-4.1: Could not find latest version

just fails in puppet but works on command line.

when doing setenv LANG C it then works. What do you think ?

regards, Ghislain.

History

#1
Updated by Benjamin Kite about 5 years ago

Setting LANG=C should take care of it until we internationalize/localize.

#2
Updated by David Schmitt about 5 years ago

This has nothing to do with puppet’s i18n/l10n. As long as puppet has to parse some command output, LANG should be set to C for each call to avoid such surprises.

#3
Updated by Matt Palmer about 5 years ago

  • Status changed from 1 to 2

I think this is a fantastic idea. The best place to put the env change would probably be in the exec/system wrapper(s) that everything does/should use. As Russ Allbery noted, though, I think it should be LC_ALL=C rather than LANG=C, although going nuts and setting both of them might be an idea (I vaguely recall some apps that only looked at LANG).

#4
Updated by Matt Palmer about 5 years ago

  • Status changed from 2 to Closed
  • 7 set to fixed

Fixed in r2456.

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